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Shovelware is a derogatory term used for software that has either been quickly developed without regard to quality or function and features, or software that has been forced on customers such as those that are preloaded on laptops or smartphones by their respective carriers.
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As more companies transform their infrastructures with hybrid cloud services, they require environments that protect the safety of their intellectual property, such as data and business rules. In addition, businesses need a set of hybrid cloud services that provides the best of both worlds: the elasticity and automatic provisioning of the public cloud with the economic viability of the private cloud. Welcome to IBM LinuxONE.

As the information age matures, data has become the most
powerful resource enterprises have at their disposal. Businesses
have embraced digital transformation, often staking their
reputations on insights extracted from collected data. While
decision-makers hone in on hot topics like AI and the potential of
data to drive businesses into the future, many underestimate the
pitfalls of poor data governance. If business decision-makers can’t
trust the data within their organization, how can stakeholders and
customers know they are in good hands? Information that is not
correctly distributed, or abandoned within an IT silo, can prove
harmful to the integrity of business decisions.

In this report, we''ll analyze the many challenges that organizations face when it comes to building and managing modern IT infrastructure. We'll also look at how many businesses are taking advantage of a hybrid cloud and on-premise approach, which comes with some significant benefits.

In the future, people won’t necessarily want to own cars, but they’ll need personal mobility. The mobility ecosystem can support a range of different services, but in the near-term, many of these nascent businesses face a range of operational challenges as they bid to grow and become profitable.
This ebook explores the fundamental needs of new mobility providers as they target business improvements, looks at their considerations as they forge key technology partnerships, and shows how HERE's Auto Mobility Operations solution can help mobility services meet those requirements.
This ebook will help you understand how Auto Mobility Operations helps:
• Enable the creation and integration of key location features as applications for mobile operating systems through use of the HERE Mobile SDK
• Manage and efficiently operate fleet assets with HERE Location Services, providing fresh, high-quality and global location-based data
• Create a frictionless and compelling UX - with APIs, mapping

Businesses are struggling with numerous variables to determine what their stance should be
regarding artificial intelligence (AI) applications that deliver new insights using deep learning.
The business opportunities are exceptionally promising. Not acting could potentially be a
business disaster as competitors gain a wealth of previously unavailable data to grow their
customer base. Most organizations are aware of the challenge, and their lines of business
(LOBs), IT staff, data scientists, and developers are working to define an AI strategy.

IDC strongly believes that the days of homogenous compute, in which a single architecture dominates all
compute in the datacenter, are over. This truth has become increasingly evident as more and more
businesses have started to launch artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. Many of them are in an
experimental stage with AI and a few have reached production readiness, but all of them are cycling
unusually fast through infrastructure options to run their newly developed AI applications and services on.

The vast increase in dark data—all of the unstructured data
from the Internet, social media, voice and information from
connected devices—is overwhelming many executives and
leaving them completely unprepared for the challenges their
businesses face.

By making use of the right technology, transportation and logistics (T&L) companies can reinvent their industry with superior customer service, increased revenues, and reduced costs.
This whitepaper looks at the obstacles facing the T&L industry and examines how fleet planning and trip analysis software businesses can help by enabling faster and smarter data-driven decision-making.
As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE can help T&L companies improve fleet management.

Colocation providers are dealing with market forces that represent both great opportunity and significant challenge – in some cases from the same development. Providers have to deal with an ever-changing set of buyers, with CFOs and COOs playing an increased role in the decision-making. And they need to address emerging trends such as the Internet of Things and cloud computing, which can have both a positive and negative impact on their businesses.

Digital business brings to mind innovative technologies: mobile devices, intelligent sensors, wearable devices, virtual reality, chatbots, blockchain, machine learning, and other technology. For some, it also reflects the rapid rise of new digitally native businesses that have disrupted traditional business models and destabilized established companies and industry sectors. For the majority of organizations, digital business means pivoting to a culture of organizational agility, where the rapid pace of demand can only be satisfied by faster and more flexible development and delivery models. As most organizations do not have the luxury of completely rebuilding their technology foundation or immediately adopting new practices and mindsets, they are embracing gradual yet fundamental shifts in culture, processes, and technology to support greater velocity and agility.

In the future, people won’t necessarily want to own cars, but they’ll need personal mobility. The mobility ecosystem can support a range of different services, but in the near-term, many of these nascent businesses face a range of operational challenges as they bid to grow and become profitable.
This ebook explores the fundamental needs of new mobility providers as they target business improvements, looks at their considerations as they forge key technology partnerships, and shows how HERE's Auto Mobility Operations solution can help mobility services meet those requirements.
This ebook will help you understand how Auto Mobility Operations helps:
• Enable the creation and integration of key location features as applications for mobile operating systems through use of the HERE Mobile SDK
• Manage and efficiently operate fleet assets with HERE Location Services, providing fresh, high-quality and global location-based data
• Create a frictionless and compelling UX - with APIs, mapping

Our research reports on the 2,000 executives from the marketing community, across 22 markets, who agreed that innovation drives growth.
However, barriers to innovation remain significant, ranging from isolation within the business, to a lack of insight into the data, and absent support from leadership in 24% of cases, and data remains the second largest issue for marketing with a 10% gap.
New technologies help harness data, demonstrate how innovation will benefit teams and businesses, and help CMOs create a successful innovation agenda.
Read the report

Infusing communications into business processes is not a simple task, as legacy deployment models for unified communications and the contact center are far too rigid to offer the required agility for digital organizations. To achieve success in the digital era, businesses must evolve their communications to a cloud delivery model. Dive into this white paper from ZK Research to discover the best path forward on your cloud transformation journey.

Don’t get me wrong – several aspects of life are much easier now thanks to the existence of the internet and digital technologies. People can jump between mobile, tablet, and desktop to search for vital information. They can read blogs, listen to podcasts, stream their favorite TV shows and keep in touch with people they careabout via social media.
And it lets people shop, anytime and anywhere.
The myriad of options available to today’s consumers allows them to visit the websites of numerous vendors and explore countless products. This is where things begin to get complicated - for shoppers and businesses:
While it’s true to say that humans like choice, its omnipresence is quickly turning into noise. Without appropriate assistance and guidance, consumers are feeling overwhelmed, anxious and unable to make confident decisions.
And, overwhelmed and indecisive customers rarely buy.

On behalf of the
Building Engines
team, welcome to
the inaugural State
of CRE Operations
Report.
All businesses, including Commercial Real
Estate, are in a state of transformation, led
by a digital and customer revolution. In these
dynamic times, best-in-class operations
can provide a sustained and measurable
advantage.

Our research reports on the 5,000 executives from the marketing community, across 24 markets, who agreed that innovation drives growth.
However, barriers to innovation remain significant, ranging from isolation within the business, to a lack of insight into the data, and absent support from leadership in 24% of cases, and data remains the second largest issue for marketing with a 10% gap.
New technologies help harness data, demonstrate how innovation will benefit teams and businesses, and help CMOs create a successful innovation agenda.
Read the report

The life of an enterprise architect is becoming busy and difficult.
Before the era of big data, the enterprise architect “only” had to
worry about the data and systems within their own data center.
However, over the past decade there were revolutionary changes
to the way information is used by businesses and how data
management platforms support the information available from
modern data sources.

Many businesses are adopting a multi-cloud infrastructure. However, managing data and communication between multiple cloud environments is often challenging and complex. Therefore, companies often try to find a technical partner that can help them. Companies with on-premise data centers need some type of interconnect to access their products and services hosted on the cloud. The traditional Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection method usually can’t meet enterprise speed,stability, security, and compliance requirements.This whitepaper describes the challenges that companies face when building dedicated connections between different cloud environments and how Alibaba Cloud’s Express Connect is the perfect solution for them

Learn what the Small Business cyber-threat landscape looks like today so your business can survive; reduce operational costs and grow securely; make security a priority for everyone, and protect your business with Cisco.
As your business grows, it gets noticed and not all of the attention is welcome. More and more sophisticated criminal gangs are going after small businesses

The Cisco Meeting and TeamCollaborationExperienceThe workplace has changed and today themost agile workforces outperform traditional setups. But the reality of modern business life is, ifyou want a culture of innovation, you have tomake it yourself.Teams need a workplace that’s focussed oninnovation and speed. Introducing Cisco WebexTeams, a platform that helps teams to do it all.Essential kit for forward-thinking smallbusinesses.

The Cisco Meeting and Team
Collaboration Experience
The workplace has changed and today the
most agile workforces outperform traditional set
ups. But the reality of modern business life is, if
you want a culture of innovation, you have to
make it yourself.
Teams need a workplace that’s focussed on
innovation and speed. Introducing Cisco Webex
Teams, a platform that helps teams to do it all.
Essential kit for forward-thinking small
businesses.

Our research reports on the 2,000 executives from the marketing community, across 22 markets, who agreed that innovation drives growth.
However, barriers to innovation remain significant, ranging from isolation within the business, to a lack of insight into the data, and absent support from leadership in 24% of cases, and data remains the second largest issue for marketing with a 10% gap.
New technologies help harness data, demonstrate how innovation will benefit teams and businesses, and help CMOs create a successful innovation agenda.
Read the report

Having on boarded numerous businesses onto the AWS platform, Rackspace found three best practices to be routinely missing from its customers’ architectural designs. These best practices for automation, scaling and segmentation, utilize capabilities inherent on the AWS platform to help drive an easier deployment.

The Health Plan Edge is a podcast that helps make it easier for small businesses to navigate health insurance. In each episode, this podcast will share real small business stories and strategies that help make health plan decisions easier for the listener. Check out episode 1, with guests, Paul Sharkey and Neal Marco, to discuss how to select the right plan for your business.